What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 17, 2025? [View all]

Built 1421 in Manchester, Chetham’s Library is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.

Reading The Waiting, Michael Connelly's latest. LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, and enlists a new volunteer to the Open-Unsolved Unit: patrol officer Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter.
"Complex, satisfying, and full of dexterous twists, The Waiting demonstrates once more that you can't do better than Michael Connelly” (Forbes). This was published last year, back when the FBI and LAPD pursued actual criminals. It's nice to be back there.

Listening to Coded Justice by Stacey Abrams. Is integrating AI into our medical industry a good idea? Not necessarily, according to this tale. "A deft combination of riveting twists set against the fascinating landscape of the capabilities of artificial intelligence." Scary!